Tyrone brown biography
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Tyrone brown biography
Tyrone Brown
African-American man from Texas
For the gridiron football player, see Tyrone Brown (gridiron football). For the attorney, see Tyrone Brown (lawyer).
Tyrone Brown (born ) is an African-American man from Texas who, in , was sentenced to a life term in a Texasmaximum security prison and was kept incarcerated for 17 years after testing positive once for smoking marijuana while on probation for robbing a man of two dollars at the age of [1] No one was hurt in the robbery, and Brown had voluntarily returned the wallet to the victim.[1] Brown's case attracted some attention in the press in , and he was later granted a conditional pardon by Texas GovernorRick Perry.[2] He was released on March 16,
Early life
Brown was a high-school dropout and had been a victim of child abuse by his father, who had reportedly beat him.
Original crime
When he was 17 years old, Brown and another year-old committed a robbery.[1] Brown and hi